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Hamilton is located in the center of Marion County along Andrew Jackson's Military Road which was carved out of the wilds of Alabama by…
(Extract from Pickens County Herald and West Alabamian (Carrollton, Alabama Jan 3, 1855) PROBATE COURT NOTICES State of Alabama} Court of Probate Pickens County}…
Speech and Voice Are Important Points by Olive Roberts Barton From Tuscaloosa News, Aug 2, 1937 When our children grow up, we want them…
Claiborne is now a ghost town on a bluff above the Alabama River in Monroe County, Alabama but a one time, it was an…
There is an unknown Confederate soldier from Alabama buried on Secession Hill. According to the South Carolina League of the South "The grave of…
Personal news from around Sumter County, August 31, 1923 (Transcribed from Sumter County Journal, York, Alabama, August 31, 1923) Sheriff J. A. Shelby…
Notices for lost slaves were posted like this in early newspapers of Cahaba, Alabama (Transcribed from Alabama State Gazette, Cahaba, Alabama April 3, 1825)…
“It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.”Branch Rickey FreeHearts: 2nd edition A Novel…
[Some consider this mysterious stone a hoax while others believe it proves early visitors to Alabama in the year 1232. The stone even made…
A PRODIGAL SON (Excerpt transcribed from The Columbia Breeze, Columbia, Alabama August 25, 1892) Perhaps never in its history has Columbia been more startled…
This article and more abstracts are available in the ebook ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES Volume IV SOME ALABAMA MARRIAGE NOTICES FROM 1850 SOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST NEWSPAPER…
ROBERT WESTON BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER (b. 1763-d. 1845) Sumter County, Alabama Robert Weston, a Revolutionary War soldier from North Carolina, is…
(Here are some quick facts and names of charter members and early members of the Colonial Dames and DAR of Alabama. Most of the facts…
PAPER TELEGRAPH POLES (This interesting article was transcribed from the Geneva County Citizen, Geneva, Alabama, January 30, 1895) Parties have introduced a method of…
(Transcribed from THE GUNTERSVILLE DEMOCRAT, January 15, 1903, Guntersville, Alabama) LOCAL AND PERSONAL Our esteemed patron, Wm. Boling, has presented to the DEMOCRAT one…
PASTE FOR PAPER HANGING (Excerpt from The Courtland Enterprise, Courtland, Alabama, February 15, 1894) First heat water to boiling, then add flour, with constant…
(transcribed with misspellings etc., from History of Conecuh County, Alabama: Embracing a detailed record of events...pub. by Benjamin Franklin Riley 1881) Early Bellville Settlement…
The Mrs. Kills A Turkey (From the Clarke County Democrat 1937 reprinted in The Tuscaloosa News Dec. 8, 1937) When the average man kills…
Click to learn how to Become a Patron! Names of Doctors who had been examined and permitted to practice in early Alabama (Transcribed from…
Patron member story This article and more abstracts are also available in the Book ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES: Volume III- Scroll to bottom to see Table…
The Territory of Alabama was created by a division of Mississippi Territory in 1817, with St. Stephens as its capital city. The first and…
BROOKLYN, CONECUH COUNTY, ALABAMA Brooklyn is a town that was large enough to have a post office and in 2010 was one of only 2…
People were suffering from LaGrippe around Boaz, Alabama in 1915 (Transcribed from The Boaz Leader, Boaz, Alabama, January 6, 1916) ROUTE 7 Health of…
BEEF SALAD Recipe from Hotel Roosevelt, New York, NY 1934 Put two cups of minced boiled beef one-half cup minced onions, one pimento, cut…
First Capital of Colonial French Louisiana "On January 20, 1702, French colonists, led by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, establish Fort Louis de la Mobile on a…
First highways in Alabama were only beaten trails and sometimes travelers became entangled in vegetation as the two men did. Conecuh County was initially…
Health was bad in surrounding communities of Boaz in 1915 (Transcribed from The Boaz Leader, Boaz, Alabama, January 6, 1916) LIBERTY NEWS Health of…
From a cemetery near Cincinnati, Ohio: Here lies ------ Who came to this city and died for the benefit of his health. From Belturbet…
The first two photographs are labeled morning attendance at a Mill school in Huntsville taken by Lewis Wickes Hine in December 1913. It may…
Deaths, Injuries, and Illness of citizens in Boaz, January 6, 1915 (Transcribed from The Boaz Leader, Boaz, Alabama, January 6, 1916) Cuts Hand of…
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